GROUP MEETING
GN00-30 August 25, 2000
To:
Avdonina, Bradley, Carney, Drukarev, LaJohn, Obolensky, Pomponiu,, Thu
There will be a group meeting THURSDAY August 31, 12:15 pm, 101AH.
(Future dates: Sept 13, Sept20, Sept27, Th Oct 19,Fr Oct 27, Fr Nov 17, Fr Dec 8, Fr Dec 15) 
1 Organizational Issues a
Appointments, next meeting, other meetings, lectures
    b Computer issues, theses, finances, telephone

 
2 Meetings
Place
Date
  AMPhFreeElLaser Hamburg Sept 4-5
  IWP Carry le Rouet, France Oct 8-12
  RIS-2000 Knoxville, TN Oct 8-13
  AISAMP4 Taipei, Taiwan Oct 13-18
  MC2000(MonCarloRadPh Lisbon, Portugal Oct 23-26
  RadPropHotDenseMatter Santa Barbara, CA Oct 30 - Nov 3
  CAARI 2000 Denton, TX Nov 1-4
  SpectrosPhotoionizPlasmas Lexington, KY Nov 15-18
  AAAS San Francisco, CA Feb 15-20
  APS Washington, DC Apr 23-27
  DAMOP London, ONT May 16-19
  ICPEAC Sante Fe, NM July 18-24
  VUV Trieste, Italy July 23-27
  e,2e dbl photo St. Louis, MO Jul 26-28

 
 
3 Deadlines  
     
  Abstracts ICPEAC (Feb 15)
  Manuscripts CAARI (Oct 1), AISAMP (Oct 13)
  Registration AISAMP (Sept 1), CAARI (Oct 1), SpPhPl (Oct 1)

 
 
4 Travels, Visitors
     
  Travel Avdonina (c Nov 9 - Dec 14), Obolensky (c Sept3-11)
  Arrivals Drukarev (Aug 29)
  Departures Bradley (Sept 3), Thu (Aug 29), Drukarev (c Oct 6)
  Visits Drukarev (Aug 29 - cOct 6), Solov'yov (Oct 21 or 22/Oct 8), Korol (Oct/Nov?)

 
  RHP Pitt DC Travel  
           
  Aug -27 28-30    
  Sept 31-2   2-11 Bucharst, Zagreb
    11-21   22-25 Lake Placid, NY
    25-29   29-1 Somerset, PA
  Oct   2-10 11-18 Taipei
    19-22 23-25    
    26-29 30-1    
  Nov     1-5 Denton, TX
    17-19 6-16    
      20-22 ?23-26? ??
  Dec 8-10 27-7    
    11-14 15-17    
  Jan        
  Feb     15-20 SanFrancisco,CA
  Mar        
  Apr        
  May     15-19 London, Ont
        25-26 Exeter, UK
  June        
  July     18-24 Sante Fe, NM

 
 
5 Manuscripts
     
  502 "High energy limit of photon-atom interactions: example of double ionization of He by photoabsorption", R. H. Pratt, E. G. Drukarev, and T. Suric, being published by World Scientific in Proceedings of the Conference on Frontiers of Physics.
  513 "On the qualitative modification of the high energy atomic photoionization cross section", M. Ya Amusia, N. B. Avdonina, E. G. Drukarev, S. T. Manson, and R. H. Pratt, being again returned to Phys. Rev. Lett.
  514 "Results on bremsstrahlung from thick targets, and new diagnostic for electron energy distribution", M. Lamoureux, P. Waller, P. Charles, and N. B. Avdonina, accpt PRE.
  517 "Photon-polarization effects and their angular dependence in relativistic two-photon bound-bound transitions", N. L. Manakov, A. V. Meremianin, A. Maquet, and J. P. J. Carney, accepted for J Phys B.
  519 "Existence of near-minima in elastic photon-atom scattering", J. P. J. Carney and R. H. Pratt, for publication in J. Rad. Phys. Chem.
  520 "Circumstances in which radiation is not absorbed, forbidding photoionization: Four classes of matrix element zeroes", L. A. LaJohn and R. H. Pratt, for publication in J. Rad. Phys. Chem.
  521 "Ionization of an atom by photoabsorption at high photon energies: Unified view in terms of singularities of the Coulombic potential", T. Suric and R. H. Pratt, for publication in J. Rad. Phys. Chem.
  522 "Correlation effects in the energy spectrum of fast outgoing electrons from double ionization of helium", E. G. Drukarev, N. B. Avdonina, and R. H. Pratt, submitted to J. Phys. B.

 
6 Funding
  Pittsburgh Proposals
  Pittsburgh Awards
       
  NSF PHY9601752   7/15/96-6/30/99 (3rd of 3) + ext
  NSF INT 9631330 India (SenG) 9/1/96-8/31/99 + ext
  NSF 9970293   ?7/1/99-

 
  Other Awards
  Due Dates
   
7 Recent Preprints
       
8 Recent Papers
       
  a Drukarev "Perturbation theory for (g , 2e) on helium", JPB 33, L513 (Aug 14 00), Keller
  b Obolensky "Stability of complex-scaled continuum-continuum transition matrix elements against rotation angle", JPB 33, 2875 (Aug 14 00), Chrysos
9 Review of Literature:
       
  a Pratt "Compton scattering by nuclei", Phys.Rpts 323, 457 (Jan 00), Hutt, L'vov, Milstein, Schumacher
  b Pratt "Theory of two electron atoms: between ground state & complete fragmentation", RMP 72, 467 (April 00) Tannet, Richter, Rust
  c Pratt "Anomalous elastic scattering of an x-ray photon by Mo near K edge", JPB 33, L433 (Jun 28 00) Hopersky et al
  d Avdonina "Free-free transitions and spectral line broadening", JPB 33, 2677 (July 28 00) Seaton
  e Pratt "Application of nuclear liquid drop model to atomic & molecular problems", Contemp Phys 41, 219 (Jul/Aug 00) Amusia & Kornyushin
  f Obolensky "Radiative & relativistic effects in decay of highly excited states of He", PRL 85, 1202 (Aug 7 00) Gorczyca et al
  g Pratt "Theoretical approaches to x-ray absorption fine structure". RMP 72, 621 (July 00) Rehr & Albers
  h Obolensky "Electron-ion Coulomb bremsstrahlung in nonideal plasmas", EPJ D11, 291 (Aug 00) Jung
  i Pratt "Rayleigh-Ritz approximation of the Dirac operator in atomic & molecular physics", PRA 62, 022508 (Aug 2000) Grant & Quiney
  j Pratt "Origin of structures in the low energy single-electron continuum in calculations for ion collisions from argon", PRA 62, 022702 (Aug 00), Gulyaas et al
  k Pratt "Analytic properties of three-body continuum Coulomb wave functions", PRA 62, 022710 (Aug 00) Garibotti et al
  l Obolensky "Coherent bremsstrahlung in alpha + p system at 50 MeV/nucleon", PRL 85, 1404 (Aug 14 00) Hoefman et al

 
10 Presentations
       
11 Manuscripts in Preparation
     
  a "Polarization correlations for d,f states", Kim, Goldberg, Pratt
  b "Observables in quantum mechanics: creating spin polarization in the absence of spin orbit interactions", Young Soon Kim and R. H. Pratt
  c "Ionization of two-electron atoms by photoabsorption at high photon energies: A view in terms of singularities of the electron-nucleus and electron-electron Coulombic potential", T. Suric, R. H. Pratt and E. G. Drukarev
  d "Multipole decomposition of atomic form factors", L. A. LaJohn and R. H. Pratt
  e "Correlation effects in the energy distribution of fast outgoing electrons from double photoionization of helium", E. Drukarev, Nina Avdonina, and R. H. Pratt
  f "Multichannel coupling and the high energy limit of the photoionization process", E. Drukarev, N. Avdonina, and R. H. Pratt
  g "Experiment and theory for the total x-ray scattering from atomic neon and helium from 4 to 15 keV: corrections to the usual scattering factors", L. Young, R. W. Dunford, E. P. Kanter, B. Krassig, S. H. Southworth, R. A. Bonham, P. Lykos, C. Morong, A. Timm, J. P. J. Carney and R. H. Pratt.
  * Also considered: bremsstrahlung review (Quarles), Linear response (Florescu), recursion relations (Bronson), semi-relativistic Rayleigh (Costescu, Bergstrom), AFT review (Suric), photoeffect review (Kim)
12 Work in Progress
     
 
Avdonina
double photoionization, GOS beyond Born & zeroes
  Carney Z-dependence of scattering, scatt in Neon
  Drukarev angular double ioniz, qfm triple & double dist, qfm for ioniz of 2p neon
  A. Florescu classical bremsstrahlung, relativistic zeroes
  V. Florescu retarded & relativistic zeroes
  Kim (YS) retarded zeroes, qm observables
  Lajohn independent information in Rayleigh scattering, bremsstrahlung, rel zeroes
  Suric Compton, double/single in Compton, photo, AFT in scattering
13 Code Library
   
  The computers primarily available for use are the group's own Sun UNIX workstations. There is also the VAX system operated by the Computing and Information Systems (CIS) department, but this system tends to have older versions of the codes, and new users will find more help available if they are using the workstations.
  In order to run the codes on local systems, look for executables in the directories:
    UNIX workstations: /usr/local/atomic/bin
    VAX system: USR2:[10104.ATOMIC1.EXE]
  We encourage use of the SLATEC numerical library, which contains a wide variety of numerical algorithms written in FORTRAN. Source code is available in the directories:
    UNIX workstations: /usr/local/atomic/slatec
    VAX system: USR3:[PHY.SLATEC]
  More information is available on the group's web site at:
    http://stribor.phyast.pitt.edu/
  The group has many books available on various operating systems, languages and software, which are kept in 325 OEH (also 327 OEH and 222 Allen). This is also the place to look for hardcopy documentation on the codes.